Pros: Unforgiven The Searchers The Good, The Bad and the Ugly True Grit The Magnificent Seven 3:10 to Yuma Tombstone High NoonĬons: Young Guns, The Quick and the Dead, Back to the Future Part III, Shanghai Noon, Bad Girls, Young Guns II, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Wild Wild West, Jonah Hex Sure, cowboys can pat their horses and lovingly mutter, “This old nag has saved my life more times than I can count.” But Han Solo did that to the Millenium Falcon, and that thing had a hyperdrive. Pros: As an advanced race capable of traversing space and time, you’ve obviously got some bitchin’ horsepower at your disposal.Ĭons: Have you ever been to a movie? Spaceships are constantly blowing up. Pros: Horses are majestic animals more than vehicles, they are companions and friends.Ĭons: Stagecoaches and trains are rickety bandit-magnets. Their look hasn’t been co-opted by attention-starved hipsters. Pros: Futuristic spacesuits tend to make everyone look like a doctor, a Special Forces commando, or David Bowie.Ĭons: Skintight spandex can be extremely unforgiving. Pros: A 10-gallon hat, a pair of six-shooters, a cowboy shirt, and some boots with spiked wheels on them is a pretty timeless look.Ĭons: … unless you’re just trying to go to the grocery store to pick up some Cheetos.

Commuting any distance for your job is a hassle, but try doing it in lightyears. Pros: You explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly freak the sh!t out of hicks and crackpots.Ĭons: Since you’re never, ever home, your wife always ends up running off with some douchebag from Mandalorian 7.

Pros: You get to spend your days and nights under vast skies and open ranges, and you live off the land.Ĭons: Well, technically, you live off lukewarm cans of beans. But we wanted to further examine the cowboys and aliens debate - clearly the most serious issue we as a nation face today - so we took another look at the facts. Cowboys & Aliens, directed by Jon Favreau and starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde, opens this week, and it would appear to come down squarely on the side of the cowboys.

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